Maniac, The(1934)

A gorilla impersonator eating a cat eye! All-girl hypodermic duelling! Star Bill Woods as a vaudevillian body snatcher! "Maniac," the original slasher movie offers all this…and less! Dwain and Hildegarde Esper’s no-budget horror flick is loosely based on Poe’s "The Black Cat."

1934, B&W, 60 minutes